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Josh Allen Rookie card sold for $264, 000, value is now at $312,000


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I had a rare Wayne Gretzky OHL card when I was a kid that a card shop owner refused to believe I owned when I called to ask about it, apparently was priceless even back then.  I think it got stolen by my scum older brother as I tried looking for it some time later to sell and couldn't find it.  I'll go through my old card collection to double check if I ever get around to cleaning out my closet.

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8 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

I have no idea what all that means. 

 

What is PSA/DNA certified? 

 

Does it actually have a piece of a game worn jersey with his DNA on it or something?

 

PSA is one of the grading companies that gives the card a certified grade based on strict standards. 10 is the highest and has to be literally perfect...centered perfectly, no corner issues, etc..

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38 minutes ago, ßookie_tech said:

My buddy sold his collection he's had since he was a kid. It was enormous, almost took up his entire basement. He sold it for over 300k. 

 

Makes me wish I kept my stamp collection. 

What years did he have mostly? I was a kid in the early 90's and I was told those years are basically worthless because they produced so many. Just my luck

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Wow I thought I had cards that were worth money. However, when I looked up online years later a lot what I thought were high value sports cards I could probably get a Subway sandwich with them. I wish I didn’t stop collecting when I was 12 now! I guess it is like the lotto all you need is one. 😂 

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9 minutes ago, Limeaid said:


Cards are matching raising players are getting. Soon only players will be able to afford them.

Josh's cars rising in value makes sense, the crazy number of different kind of cards they make not as much, feels like Josh finishes a game and then they take his jersey and various equipment and break it down for cards.

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43 minutes ago, KDIGGZ said:

What years did he have mostly? I was a kid in the early 90's and I was told those years are basically worthless because they produced so many. Just my luck

He had a lot of 80's cards. He was a big Chicago Bulls fan and he had a lot of Jordans. Some rare rookie cards, I believe. He would also travel to these obscure card shops all over the country to find some of these cards. And he kept adding to his collection almost up until he sold it I think. 

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The best part about it is, the card at best is 60-40 side to side. Not a 10. I have a lot of stuff from the 50's on up, some graded. I have a couple of jordan refractors graded 10 that looks like a 9 and a few psa 9s that look dead on psa 10s. Comics are even worse. With CGC grading on golden and silver age books, consistency is non existent.  Buy the card not the grade.

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4 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

I have no idea what all that means. 

 

What is PSA/DNA certified? 

 

Does it actually have a piece of a game worn jersey with his DNA on it or something?


PSA/DNA means that the autograph on that card is 100% authentic. The card graded a gem mint 10 is the highest grade that particular card can get by PSA and the Jersey is worn by Josh Allen, sometimes it’s game worn but most of the time it’s event worn, he walks around at event with it and the card company cuts it up and puts it into the card.

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That's insane. 

 

Only thing  it shows you is that a few have gobs upon gobs of disposable income while many others struggle...

 

Society @ this level isn't sustainable. 

4 minutes ago, CSBill said:

Back in the day I used a Thurman Munson rookie card as a flapper on the spokes of my banana bike. It was so cool.

Like!  Same.  Bags of them!

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1 hour ago, Not at the table Karlos said:

Bills isn’t stitched like that and our jerseys don’t say Buffalo on them. I don’t see how either could be the letter “B”

I’ve seen this with cards from many players.  I believe what we’re looking at is from a jersey with “Rookie” as the nameplate.  These may be used in a minicamp that isn’t open to the public early on.  You see these “oo”’s and R’s and k’s on a lot of these cards of guys whose names don’t match.

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8 hours ago, TYSONKO1 said:

The best part about it is, the card at best is 60-40 side to side. Not a 10. I have a lot of stuff from the 50's on up, some graded. I have a couple of jordan refractors graded 10 that looks like a 9 and a few psa 9s that look dead on psa 10s. Comics are even worse. With CGC grading on golden and silver age books, consistency is non existent.  Buy the card not the grade.

Not sure I agree about the Allen card being OC.  The NT cards don’t always look naturally centered even when they are.  I will say that although pictures can be deceiving to me there seems to be an edge flaw on the left near the bottom.  

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50 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:

I’ve seen this with cards from many players.  I believe what we’re looking at is from a jersey with “Rookie” as the nameplate.  These may be used in a minicamp that isn’t open to the public early on.  You see these “oo”’s and R’s and k’s on a lot of these cards of guys whose names don’t match.

Someone mentioned that on twitter. I spent a while trying to find anything I could that showed “rookie” on the back. All I could find was the players name. It would be weird to use a game Jersey that said rookie in a mini camp. They use practice jerseys and I don’t see them being super secret with the media if they did have them change to a different Jersey than normal unless it was some type of rookie hazing. 
 

Edit- Someone else mentioned the card companies have them wear a Jersey at an event and cut it up after. I wouldn’t want the card if that were the case. Game worn or nothing for me. 

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